Gordon Gecko was wrong. Greed is not good. It's very, very bad. And, it's destroying America a little more each day.

 

This morning on MSNBC's conservative Morning Joe show, rock icon Graham Nash had this to say about the Koch Brothers.

 

"...it's appalling how many climate change deniers there are in this world that are paid to make sure that the Koch brothers can still sell all the stuff to us. And I often wonder, don't the Koch brothers have children? Don't they have grandchildren? Don't they know what they're doing in this quest for more money? They're already one of the richest families in the world. How much more do you need?"

 

He's right. Greed is threatening to destroy our entire planet. And it's not just greed in the fossil fuel industry. It's become virtually impossible - if not totally impossible - to name a single major industry in America that We The People aren't subsidizing and that hasn't turned into a functional monopoly.

 

Think about it. Each year, we give away billions to Big Oil. We give billions to Wall Street. We fork over our hard earned money to private prison corporations, healthcare giants, and giant transnational fast-food corporations. That's all money that's coming out of our pockets, money that was taken as our tax dollars from We The People.

 

And, we're giving away these billions despite the fact that those industries and corporations are raking in massive profits all by themselves.

 

Read more here.

 

-Thom

 

Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 10pm... The Prosecution of an American President - Vincent Bugliosi (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT or Free Speech TV, and catch past shows on Youtube)

 

Be sure to check out our new videos: CARBON & LAST HOURS - both narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio

 

Need to Know: The Prosecution of an American President
- Vincent Bugliosi, The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder.

 

Big Picture Politics Panel:
- Hughey Newsome, Project 21 / Move-On-Up      
- Nate Sweet, Progressive Commentator  
- Jennifer Kerns, Washington Times / The Blaze      

 

 

The 2014 Voting Nightmare
- Allegra Chapman, Common Cause    

 

        

Tuesday's Daily Stack 

Article: "The Stark Facts of Global Greed, a Disease as Challenging as Climate Change" by Paul Bucheit.

Movie: "Wall Street" (1987).

Article: "Living Wages, Rarity for U.S. Fast-Food Workers, Served Up in Denmark" by Liz Alderman and Steven Greenhouse.

Article: "Sherman Antitrust Act", 1890.

Article: "On MSNBC, Graham Nash Blasts Koch Bros.; 'Execution' of Michael Brown" by Matthew Balan.

The good: "Marijuana news: Jeff Merkley first U.S. senator to support legalizing pot" by Noelle Crombie.

The bad: Foster's Daily Democrat: "Politician Who Has Been Dead Since 2009 Just Weighed In on New Hampshire Senate Race" by David Weigel.

The very, very ugly: "Westboro Baptist Church Files Brief Against Challenge To Kansas' Gay Marriage Ban" by Curtis M. Wong.

Site: Carl Wolfson.

Book: "The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight: Revised and Updated: The Fate of the World and What We Can Do Before It's Too Late" by Thom Hartmann.

Book: "Columbus and Other Cannibals: The Wetiko Disease of Exploitation, Imperialism, and Terrorism" by Jack D. Forbes.

Video: Ted Kennedy on Republicans and Minimum wage, 25 January 2007. "When does the greed stop?"

Movie: "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre".

Article: "Why Chevron's trying to buy Richmond's elections" by Brett Murphy and Bonnie Chan.

Video: The Wrecking Crew, by Thomas Frank.

Hour Two: Food fight...the 'right' to be unhealthy?
- Baylen Linnekin, Keep Food Legal 

Article: "Nurse Amber Vinson Ebola Free, Released from Emory Hospital" by Paayal Zaveri.

Article: "Constitution of the United States", article 3 section 2. "... the supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make..."

Article: "Minneapolis Is Micromanaging the Food Supply" by Baylen Linnekin.

 

Video: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Climate Change Debate (HBO) .

Article: "Matthew 19:16-30 The Rich and the Kingdom of God" It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.

If I Only Had A Brain Alert: "Man Accidentally Texts "You Have Some Weed?" To Probation Officer" by Hilary Hanson.

Case: "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission" (2010).

Book: "Threshold: The Progressive Plan to Pull America Back from the Brink" by Thom Hartmann.

Documentary: Super Size Me.

 

Talk Radio News Segment:
- Ellen Ratner, Bureau Chief 

Article: "Pentagon: "Separate Facility" For Army Returning From West Africa" by William McDonald.

Article: "White House: Military Policies on Ebola Won't Help Civilians" by Celina Gore.

Article: "Christie Says Nurse Quarantined for Ebola Can Go Home" by Dan Kedmey.

Article: "Obama Goes To Wisconsin In Bid To Oust Scott Walker" by Scott Bauer.

Site: Governor Free Don Siegelman.

Site: "Goats for the old Goat".

Article: "TRNS News Notes- 10/28" by Victoria Jones.

Article: "TRNS News Notes- 10/27" by Victoria Jones.

Hour Three: FINALLY...some good news about fracking!
- J. David Hughes, Post Carbon Institute 

Article: "Drilling Deeper: A Reality Check on U.S. Government Forecasts for a Lasting Tight Oil & Shale Gas Boom" by Post Carbon Institute.

Article: "Drilling California: A Reality Check on the Monterey Shale" by David Hughes.

Article: "Shale and Wall Street" by Deborah Rogers.

Article: "Government lags in measuring gush of U.S. crude" by FuelFix.com.

Article: "We're Sitting on 10 Billion Barrels of Oil! OK, Two" by Asjylyn Loder and Isaac Arnsdorf.

Article: "Falling oil price to cut shale costs" by Ed Crooks.

 

Article: "Wheel hub motor" by Wikipedia.

Site: Green World Rising

Article: "Global wildlife populations down by half since 1970: WWF" by Kounteya Sinha.

Video: Ayn Rand Interview (1959) Part 1 of 3.

Article: "Fairness Doctrine " by Wikipedia.

  

Wednesday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 12-3pm ET 

Barbara Coombs Lee will be here to talk about the other pro-choice movement

 

Plus, I'll debate attorney Paul Sherman about money in politics

 

And, Dan Sisson and I will be talking about The American Revolution of 1800

 

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